"Thats nufin - Google maps will navigate you right across the runway of Avalon Airport.."
They must have been practicing for mapping the runway at Gibraltar - at least they got that one right. The latest Sensis mapping has that error but the latest Navteq ones don't - Strange. The accuracy on the commercial mapping varies wildly. In the Adelaide hills the Sensis maps are excellent. I only found two tiny errors and they were completely inconsequential. Elsewhere the mapping can be completely useless. In Binalong, for example the Sensis maps are out by about 50 metres, which means that your car navigation system never knows which street it is on. Tathra had this problem (93 metres out) in the V13 release but the newer R14 maps have been corrected. If the commercial mappers cared at all about accuracy (which I don't think they do - Yet) they have the perfect tool available to address the problem (OSM). All they have to do is compare their maps to the OSM data, and where they are different, they send someone out to see who got it right. Talking of accuracy - I mapped two streets in Yass and I think that I've got one of them wrong. I must have either misread the street sign or I have made a typo whilst editing. Does anyone have authoritave information (from a non copyrighted source) of the correct name for what I've tagged as Ross Street. (I think it may well be Rossi Street). Nick
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